--- product_id: 48536760 title: "DJIBOUTI Paperback – September 29, 2011" brand: "elmore leonard" price: "£15.63" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 7 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/48536760-djibouti-paperback-september-29-2011 store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # DJIBOUTI Paperback – September 29, 2011 **Brand:** elmore leonard **Price:** £15.63 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** DJIBOUTI Paperback – September 29, 2011 by elmore leonard - **How much does it cost?** £15.63 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/48536760-djibouti-paperback-september-29-2011) ## Best For - elmore leonard enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted elmore leonard brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![DJIBOUTI Paperback – September 29, 2011 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/712qCnvYuEL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good *by J***E on March 26, 2025* Elmore Leonard never disappoints. An interesting read about a little known part of the world. Unique characters give the story a realistic feel. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Shake Djibouti *by C***Y on November 26, 2010* There are a number of reasons not to like this novel, all of them valid. It's disjointed and hard to follow. The central characters seem uninvolved in the events around them. There's really no one with whom the reader can identify. The dialogue seldom crackles.People who approach this novel with certain expectations based on their past brushes with Elmore Leonard's fiction will be disappointed. As the reviews here demonstrate, they have been.Nonetheless, I enjoyed it. If a graphic novel is storytelling with pictures instead of words, then think of Djibouti as a graphic novel told with words instead of pictures: then you get the ambiance.Dara Barr the documentarian goes to exotic East Africa to shoot Somali pirates. She reviews her footage with her one-man crew Xavier LeBou, her Nawlins neighbor who's been around the world many times, the hard way. The stuff in the can lacks zip. The real story isn't the guys with guns in the skiffs boarding boats in the Gulf of Aden, but the money men on the other end and in between the ransom drops, and that's not exciting stuff for the screen. But things take on a different cast when Dara learns the subjects of her story have rousted a couple of al Qaeda operatives from a seized natural gas tanker and are turning them in for bounty. The tanker's ransom paid -- and bombs placed on board? -- the floating container of liquid propane is headed off to port in Lake Charles, LA, where, perhaps, bin Laden plans to detonate a firebomb more massive in destructive scope than Hiroshima. Now that would be a story worth filming -- if the ship ever makes its way past Djibouti.There are colorful characters, including one of the temporarily captured al Qaedas, a black American who started as a gang banger before becoming a Muslim in prison and heading off to join a jihad that matched a vocation to his skills; a Texas billionaire sailing around the world with his fashion model girlfriend, drinking champagne and piecing together intelligence; pirate bosses who want only to get one more big score before retiring in comfort to Europe. They are all mixed together, and if the story doesn't move with the speed and direction of a locomotive (which admittedly it doesn't) it certainly does float along on a decidedly dangerous current.You might just want to put aside any expectations and come along. ### ⭐⭐⭐ I love Elmore Leonard, but··· *by E***N on June 14, 2016* I've read Many of his novels, everything from his early westerns to his final novels. He is one of my favorite writers; his characters are believable and 3D, their character revealed mostly by interesting, quirky dialogue. I love the way his plots are sometimes derailed by unforseen occurrences.One of my favorite Leonard novels is LaBrava, where his protagonist's interior world is shown alternating between current experience and his memories of the female lead's performances in a movie. Leonard perfected a similar technique in Get Shorty.It seems to me that Leonard's experiences in the film world got the better of him in DjIbouti. The cinematic editing of the novel went to far and became more distracting than expressive. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/48536760-djibouti-paperback-september-29-2011](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/48536760-djibouti-paperback-september-29-2011) --- *Product available on Desertcart United Kingdom* *Store origin: GB* *Last updated: 2026-05-19*